The 1903–04 Syracuse Orangemen men's basketball team represented Syracuse University during the 1903–04 college men's basketball season. The head coach was John A. R. Scott, coaching his first season with the Orangemen.

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Syracuse Orange men's basketball
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The Syracuse Orange mens basketball program is an intercollegiate mens basketball team representing Syracuse University. The program is classified in the NCAAs Division I, and the team competes in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Orange currently hold an active NCAA-record 46 consecutive winning seasons. In those games, the Orange lost to Indiana in 1987 and Kentucky in 1996, Syracuse fielded its first varsity basketball team in 1900-01. The program rose to prominence early in its history, being recognized by the Helms Athletic Foundation as national champions for 1918 and 1926. The program made National Invitation Tournament appearances in 1946 and 1950, won the 1951 National Campus Tournament, notable early era players included Hall of Famer Vic Hanson and racial pioneer Wilmeth Sidat-Singh. The modern era of Syracuse basketball began with the arrival of future Hall of Famer Dave Bing. As a sophomore in 1964, Bing led the team to an NIT appearance and as a senior in 1966, he led the team to its second NCAA Tournament appearance, Bings backcourt partner on these teams was future Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim. Syracuse remained competitive after Bings departure, with NIT appearances in 1967,1971, under coach Roy Danforth, in 1973, the team began a string of consecutive NCAA appearances highlighted by a Final Four appearance in 1975. The 1975 squad featured guard Jim Lee and forward Rudy Hackett and was known as Roys Runts. Following the 1976 season, Danforth was hired away by Tulane University, Boeheim extended the string of NCAA appearances to nine, with bids in each of his first four seasons, a period in which his teams won 100 games. These teams featured star forward Louis Orr and center Roosevelt Bouie and were referred to as the Louie and Bouie Show. Syracuse was a member of the Big East Conference in 1979, along with Georgetown University, St. Johns University. Over the next ten seasons, these two schools met eight times in the Big East Tournament, four times in the finals, Syracuse won the Big East Tournament in 1981, but was passed over by the NCAA Tournament. The team, featuring Danny Schayes and Leo Rautins, finished runner-up in the NIT, the team returned to the NIT in 1982, before beginning another extended streak of NCAA appearances in 1983. Heralded high school phenomenon Dwayne Pearl Washington joined the team in 1983, and led the school to NCAA appearances in 1984,1985, led by guard Lawrence Moten and forward/center John Wallace, the school returned to the NCAAs in 1994 and 1995. The 1997 squad won 19 games but was bypassed by the NCAA Tournament, the 1998,1999, and 2000 squads featuring guard Jason Hart and center Etan Thomas all earned NCAA bids. In 2000, the University also named its All-Century Team, recognizing its greatest players of the 20th century, the team made a fourth consecutive NCAA appearance in 2001, but returned to the NIT in 2002, despite having a 20-win season. This marked the first time a school with 20 wins from the Big East Conference was denied a bid to the NCAA Tournament, Anthony was named NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player

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Syracuse University
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Syracuse University, commonly referred to as Syracuse, Cuse, or SU, is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States. The institutions roots can be traced to the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded in 1831 by the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, after several years of debate over relocating the college to Syracuse, the university was established in 1870, independent of the college. Since 1920, the university has identified itself as nonsectarian, although it maintains a relationship with The United Methodist Church, the campus is in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, east and southeast of downtown, on one of the larger hills. Its large campus features a mix of buildings, ranging from nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival structures to contemporary buildings. Syracuse University athletic teams, known as the Orange, participate in 20 intercollegiate sports, SU is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference for all NCAA Division I athletics, except for the mens rowing and womens ice hockey teams. SU is also a member of the Eastern College Athletic Conference, the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary was founded in 1831 by the Genesee Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Lima, New York, south of Rochester. In 1850, it was resolved to enlarge the institution from a seminary into a college, or to connect a college with the seminary, however, the location was soon thought by many to be insufficiently central. Its difficulties were compounded by the set of technological changes. The trustees of the college then decided to seek a locale whose economic. Meanwhile, there were years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse. At the time, the ministers wanted a share of the funds from the Morrill Land Grant Act for Genesee College and they agreed to a quid pro quo donation of $25,000 from Senator Cornell in exchange for their support for his bill. Cornell insisted the bargain be written into the bill and Cornell became New York States Land Grant University in 1865. In 1869, Genesee College obtained New York State approval to move to Syracuse, but Lima got an injunction to block the move. By that time, however, the injunction had been made moot by the founding of a new university on March 24,1870. On that date the State of New York granted the new Syracuse University its own charter, the City of Syracuse had offered $100,000 to establish the school. Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck had donated $25,000 to the school and was elected the first president of the Board of Trustees. Rev. Daniel Steele, a former Genesee College president, served as the first administrative leader of Syracuse until its Chancellor was appointed, the university opened in September 1871 in rented space downtown. George F. Comstock, a member of the new Universitys Board of Trustees, had offered the school 50 acres of farmland on a hillside to the southeast of the city center

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Canton, New York
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Canton is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 10,995 at the 2010 census, the town contains two villages, one also named Canton, the other named Rensselaer Falls. The town is named after the port of Canton in China. Canton is the home of St. Lawrence University and SUNY Canton, Canton Central School District is centered in the village of Canton. The first settler arrived in 1800, the town was organized/incorporated on May 14th,1805 from part of the town of Lisbon. The name Canton was supposedly selected due to interests in the China trade. Canton was one of the ten towns of the county. In 1845, the community of Canton was incorporated as a village, the Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 105.9 square miles. The Grasse River flows northward through the centre of St. Lawrence County, U. S. Route 11 is a northeast-southwest highway, which intersects New York State Route 68 and New York State Route 310 at Canton village. As of 2000, the census reported there were 10,334 people,3,198 households. The population density was 98.6 people per square mile, there were 3,515 housing units at an average density of 33.5 per square mile. 91. 81% White,4. 49% Black or African American,0. 54% Native American,0. 99% Asian,1. 02% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 92% of the population. 29. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.99. In the town, the population was out with 18. 9% under the age of 18,29. 6% from 18 to 24,21. 8% from 25 to 44,18. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 27 years, for every 100 females there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.6 males, the median income for a household in the town was $36,875, and the median income for a family was $43,819. Males had an income of $33,993 versus $25,989 for females

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Yale Bulldogs men's basketball
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The Yale Bulldogs mens basketball team represents Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, competing in the Ivy League. The team plays games in the John J. Lee Amphitheater of the Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The current head coach is James Jones, Yale has won 100 Ivy League championships –1957,1962,1963,2002,2015, and 2016. Before the official formation of the Ivy League, there was the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League – the forerunner to the Ivy Group, Yale won eight EIBL titles –1902,1903,1907,1915,1917,1923,1933 and 1949. The Bulldogs captured the first official Ivy League title in 1957 as they finished 12–2 and lost to national champion North Carolina, 90–74. The 1962 club finished 13–1 in Ivy play, but lost in overtime to Wake Forest, 92–82, the 1963 team tied Princeton for the Ivy title with an 11–3 record, but fell to the Tigers in a playoff, 65–53. In 2002, the Bulldogs were part of the first three-way tie in Ivy history, Yale beat Princeton 76–60 in the first Ivy playoff game, but fell to Penn 77–58 in the game to determine the NCAA berth. In 2015, Yale tied Harvard for the Ivy title with an 11–3 record, Harvard won that playoff game at the Palestra in Philadelphia on March 14,2015 by a score of 53-51, preventing Yale from reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 53 years. The Bulldogs won the Ivy League championship outright in 2016 with a 13–1 conference record to advance to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 54 years, the team has appeared in four NCAA Tournaments overall. On March 17,2016, Yale defeated the Baylor Bears 79–75 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament for the schools first-ever Tournament victory, Yale has appeared in the NCAA Tournament four times. The Bulldogs combined record is 1–5, Yale has been to the National Invitation Tournament once. Yale has been to the CollegeInsider. com Tournament twice

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Syracuse, New York
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Syracuse is a city in, and the county seat of, Onondaga County, New York, in the United States. It is the largest U. S. city with the name Syracuse, and is the fifth most populous city in the state of New York following New York City, Buffalo, Rochester, and Yonkers. At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,170 and it is the economic and educational hub of Central New York, a region with over a million inhabitants. Syracuse is also well-provided with convention sites, with a convention complex. Syracuse was named after the original Greek city Syracuse, a city on the eastern coast of the Italian island of Sicily. The city has functioned as a crossroads over the last two centuries, first between the Erie Canal and its branch canals, then of the railway network. Today, Syracuse is located at the intersection of Interstates 81 and 90, Syracuse is home to Syracuse University, a major research university, as well as Le Moyne College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college. In 2010, Forbes rated Syracuse 4th in the top 10 places in the U. S. to raise a family, the Syracuse area was first seen by Europeans when French missionaries came to the area in the 1600s. Marie de Gannentaha, on the northeast shore of Onondaga Lake, Jesuit missionaries visiting the Syracuse region in the mid 1600s reported salty brine springs around the southern end of Salt Lake, known today as Onondaga Lake. It is the north flowing brine from Tully that is the source of salt for the salty springs found along the shoreline of Onondaga lake, the rapid development of this industry in the 18th and 19th centuries led to the nicknaming of Syracuse as The Salt City. In 1847, the city was named after Syracuse, Sicily. In 1861, he developed the process for the manufacture of soda ash from brine wells dug in the southern end of Tully valley. The process was an improvement over the earlier Leblanc process, the Syracuse Solvay plant was the incubator for a large chemical industry complex owned by Allied Signal in Syracuse, the result of which made Onondaga Lake the most polluted in the nation. The salt industry declined after the Civil War, but a new manufacturing industry arose in its place, the Geneva Medical College was founded in 1834. It is now known as Upstate Medical University, one of four medical colleges in the State University of New York system. The first New York State Fair was held in Syracuse in 1841, world War II sparked significant industrial expansion in the area, specialty steel, fasteners, custom machining. After the war, two of the Big Three automobile manufacturers had major operations in the area, Syracuse was headquarters for Carrier Corporation, and Crouse-Hinds manufactured traffic signals in Syracuse. General Electric had its television manufacturing plant at Electronics Parkway in Syracuse

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Williamstown, Massachusetts
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Williamstown is a town in Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west and it is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 7,754 at the 2010 census, a college town, it is home to Williams College, the Clark Art Institute and the Tony-awarded Williamstown Theatre Festival, which runs every July and August. Originally called West Hoosac, the area was first settled in 1749, prior to this time its position along the Mohawk Trail made it ideal Mohican hunting grounds. Its strategic location bordering Dutch colonies in New York led to its settlement, fort West Hoosac, the westernmost blockhouse and stockade in Massachusetts, was built in 1756. The town was incorporated in 1765 as Williamstown according to the will of Col. Ephraim Williams and he bequeathed a significant sum to the town on the condition that it were named after him and started a free school. In 1791, the opened, but only lasted a short time as a free school before becoming Williams College in 1793. The primary industry was agriculture, particularly dairy farming, sheep herding, sawmills and gristmills operated by water power at the streams. With the Industrial Revolution larger mills were added, including the Walley Mill and Williamstown Manufacturing Company, with the opening of the railroad, tourists arrived. Several inns and hotels were established, including the Idlewild Hotel, in the late 1930s and 1940s, E. Parmelee Prentice and his wife Alta, the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, created Mount Hope Farm. With a mansion designed by James Gamble Rogers, it was one of the experimental farms in the country. Today, it belongs to Williams College, which remains the largest employer in town. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 46.9 square miles, of which 46.8 square miles is land and 0.12 square miles. Located in the Berkshires, Williamstown is drained by the Hoosic River, Williamstown is the northwesternmost town in Massachusetts. The town is bordered on the north by Pownal, Vermont, on the east by Clarksburg, North Adams and Adams, on the south by New Ashford and Hancock, the town proper lies southwest of the confluence of the Green River and the Hoosic River. To the west, the Taconic Range lines the N. Y. state border and is where Taconic Trail State Park is located, the highest point in town is at 3,320 feet above sea level, just 0.2 miles west of the summit of Greylock. The Appalachian Trail skirts the town twice, near the southeast corner of town, to the northeast, Pine Cobble lies along the Clarksburg town line, and to the north lies the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont. U. S. Route 7 passes from north to south through the town, crossing into Vermont to the north and New Ashford to the south

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Middletown, CT
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Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state,16 miles south of Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated as a town under its original Indian name and it received its present name in 1653. Middletown was included within Hartford County upon its creation on May 10,1666, in 1784, the central settlement was incorporated as a city distinct from the town. Both were included within newly formed Middlesex County in May 1785, in 1923, the City of Middletown was consolidated with the Town, making the city limits of the city quite extensive. Middletown was the county seat of Middlesex County from its creation in 1785 until the elimination of county government in 1960, as of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 47,648. Middletown, Connecticut is considered the southernmost city in the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor Metropolitan Region, at the time the first European settlers arrtived in the region, the Mattabesetts were a part of the group of tribes in the Connecticut Valley, under a single chief named Sowheag. Plans for the settlement of Mattabesett were drawn up by the General Court in 1646. The Name Middletown was chosen because the site was approximate halfway between Windsor and Saybrook on the Great River, life was not easy among these early colonial Puritans, clearing the land and building homes, and tending farms in the rocky soil of New England was a labor-intensive ordeal. The Mattabesett and other referred to the Mohegan as destroyers of men. Sowheag hoped that the colonists would intervene, smallpox, too, afflicted the Mattabesett, significantly lessening their ability to resist and their cohesion as a tribe. Records show that, over time, Sowheag was forced to sell off most of the Mattabesett property to the local colonists, similar milieus of tragic interaction between Native Americans and colonists were common in 17th century New England. During the 18th century, Middletown became the largest and most prosperous settlement in Connecticut, by the time of the American Revolution, Middletown was a thriving port with one-third of its citizens involved in merchant and maritime activities. Middletown merchant traders pushed for the clearance of the Saybrook Bar at the mouth of the Connecticut River, and later sought the creation of Middlesex County in 1785. The name Middlesex was chosen because the intention was to make Middletown the head of a river port, much as London was at the head of its long river port in Middlesex County. The same persons also established the Middlesex Turnpike to link all the settlements on the side of the Connecticut. The ports decline began in the early 19th century with strained American-British relations and resulting trade restrictions, during this period, Middletown became a major center for firearms manufacturing. Numerous gun manufacturers in the area supplied the majority of pistols to the United States government during the War of 1812, after that war, however, the center of this business passed to Springfield, Massachusetts, Hartford, Connecticut, and New Haven, Connecticut. 1831 saw the establishment of Wesleyan University which was to one of the United States leading liberal arts institutions

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Amherst, Massachusetts
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Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,819, the town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five Colleges. The name of the town is pronounced without the h, giving rise to the saying, only the h is silent. The communities of Amherst Center, North Amherst, and South Amherst are census-designated places, Amherst is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Lying 18 miles northeast of the city of Springfield, Amherst is considered the northernmost town in the Hartford-Springfield Knowledge Corridor Metropolitan Region, Amherst celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2009. The Amherst 250th Anniversary Celebration Committee was established to oversee the creation and implementation of activities throughout 2009. The first permanent English settlements arrived in 1727 and it gained precinct status in 1734 and eventually township in 1759. When it incorporated, the governor assigned the town the name Amherst after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst. Many colonial governors at the time scattered his name amidst the influx of new town applications, Amherst was a hero of the French and Indian War who, according to popular legend, singlehandedly won Canada for the British and banished France from North America. Popular belief has it that he supported the American side in the Revolutionary war, nonetheless, his previous service in the French and Indian War meant he remained popular in New England. For this reason, there have been occasional ad hoc movements to rename the town, suggested new names have included Emily, after Emily Dickinson. According to the United States Census Bureau, Amherst has an area of 27.8 square miles. The town is bordered by Hadley to the west, Sunderland and Leverett to the north, Shutesbury, Pelham, and Belchertown to the east, and Granby and South Hadley to the south. The highest point in the town is on the shoulder of Mount Norwottuck. The town is equidistant from both the northern and southern state lines. For interactive mapping provided by the Town of Amherst, see External Links on this page, Amhersts ZIP code of 01002 is the second-lowest number in the continental United States after Agawam. Amherst has a continental climate that under the Köppen system marginally falls into the warm-summer category. It is interchangeable with the hot-summer subtype dfa with July means hovering around 71.4 °F, winters are cold and snowy, albeit daytime temperatures often remain above freezing

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Meadville, Pennsylvania
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Meadville is a city in and the county seat of Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States. The city is within 40 miles of Erie, Pennsylvania and within 90 miles of Pittsburgh and it was the first permanent settlement in northwest Pennsylvania. The population was 13,388 at the 2010 census, the city of Meadville is the principal city of the Meadville, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area. As well as one of two cities, the other being Erie, that make up the larger Erie-Meadville, PA Combined Statistical Area, Meadville was settled on May 12,1788, by a party of settlers led by David Mead. Its location was well, for it lies at the confluence of Cussewago Creek and French Creek. Their settlement was in a meadow, first cleared by Native Americans led by Chief Custaloga. The village Custaloga built here was known as Cussewago, the neighboring Iroquois and Lenape befriended the isolated settlement, but their enemies, including the Wyandots, were not so amiable. The threat of their attacks caused the settlement to be evacuated for a time in 1791, around 1800, many of the settlers to the Meadville area came after receiving land bounties for service in the Revolutionary War. Meadville Theological School was established in 1844 by a businessman and Unitarian named Harm Jan Huidekoper. It moved to Chicago in 1926, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries Meadville played a small part in the Underground Railroad helping escaping slaves to freedom. An event in September 1880 led to the end of segregation by race in the public schools. At the South Ward schools, Elias Allen tried unsuccessfully to enroll his two children and he appealed to the Crawford County Court of Common Pleas, and Judge Pearson Church declared unconstitutional the 1854 state law mandating separate schools for Negro children. This law was amended, effective July 4,1881, to such segregation. By the late 19th century, Meadvilles economy was driven by logging, agriculture. The Talon Corporation, headquartered in Meadville, played a role in the development of the zipper. Since the clothing industry was largely unaffected by the Great Depression, during World War II, the nearby Keystone Ordnance plant brought additional jobs to the area. After the war, Meadvilles industrial growth continued, Talon remained a major employer, along with the Erie Railroad, American Viscose Corporation, Channellock tools, and Dads Pet Food. In the 1980s, the Great Lakes region saw a decline in heavy industry, by the early 1990s, Channellock and Dads were the only large companies operating in Meadville

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Art Powell (coach)
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Arthur L. Powell was an American basketball and football player and coach. Powell was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1884 and was brought to Buffalo, as a teenager, Powell learned the game of basketball from the Buffalo Germans team. The Germans became the team in the country, playing against the best pro and amateur teams in the world. In 1961, the Buffalo Germans basketball team was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, after graduating from Masten Park High School in Buffalo, he starred in basketball, baseball and football at Syracuse University in the early 1900s graduating in 1907. Although he was five feet four inches tall, he jumped center for the Syracuse basketball team and was named captain. He weighed less than 140 pounds but was the Syracuse football quarterback for three years, Powell began his basketball coaching career in 1907 at the University of Rochester. His 1909–10 Rochester basketball team finished with 16 wins and 2 losses, in 1912, Powell was recruited to Bloomington, Indiana, to serve as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers mens basketball team. He stayed just that one season finishing 5–11 and last in the Big Ten Conference, in 1915, Powell returned to Buffalo, and spent the next 27 years as the head coach of the Buffalo Bisons mens basketball program, from 1915 to 1943. He also coached the Buffalo Bisons football team from 1916 to 1921, powells 1930–31 team was 15–0, the best mark in Buffalo basketball history. When the University of Buffalo suspended intercollegiate athletics in 1943 for the duration of World War II, Powell left and his top achievement with the Canisius Golden Griffins was a victory over Nat Holmans CCNY team. When his career ended, Powell had coach mens basketball for 38+ seasons at the University of Rochester, Indiana University, University of Buffalo and he died in Kenmore, NY at the age of 85 in 1969. In 1984, he was inducted into the University at Buffalo Athletics Hall of Fame, art Powell at the College Football Data Warehouse

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Oncenter War Memorial Arena
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The War Memorial Arena is a multi-purpose arena located in Syracuse, New York. It is part of the Oncenter Complex and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The War Memorial Arena is home to the Syracuse Crunch ice hockey team, previous teams to call the War Memorial home included the NBAs Syracuse Nationals, the NLLs Syracuse Smash and several now-defunct American Hockey League teams. The Nationals defeated the Fort Wayne Pistons in a seventh game at home to win the 1954–55 NBA Championship. The War Memorial also hosted the NBA All-Star Game in 1961, the 1977 film Slap Shot included the War Memorial among the various arenas used as shooting locations for in-game action. The Onondaga County War Memorial was home to the annual NYSPHSAA wrestling tournament in 1968, from 1970 to 1972, the championship event has since been hosted by various venues around the state. Professional wrestling has also experienced its share of history at the War Memorial and it also hosted the first WWF In Your House pay-per-view in 1995. In April 1998 the Oncenter hosted WWF Monday Night Raw, the Oncenter is occasionally host to WWE house shows. The American Hockey Leagues Syracuse Crunch have hosted the AHL All-Star Classic twice, elvis Presley also performed at the venue, July 25 and 26,1976. An audience recording featuring both shows was released in 2015 under the title Onondaga Nights, the Oncenter War Memorial Arena was the first professional hockey arena to install LED lighting in 2012, provided by Ephesus Lighting. On top of the stage are the words, In memory of our service veterans

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Carrier Dome
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Carrier Dome is a 49, 250-seat domed sports stadium located on the campus of Syracuse University in the University Hill neighborhood of Syracuse, New York. It is home to the Syracuse Orange football, basketball, in 2006–07, the womens basketball team began playing home games in the Dome. New York high school state championships as well as the annual New York State Field Band Conference championships are held in the stadium. The Carrier Dome is the largest domed stadium of any college campus, and it is also the largest on-campus basketball arena in the nation, with a listed capacity of 33,000, however, this limit has been exceeded several times. Toward the end of the 1970s, Syracuse University was under pressure to improve its facilities in order to remain a Division I-A football school. Its small concrete stadium, Archbold Stadium, was 70 years old, the stadium could not be expanded, earlier in the decade it had been reduced from 40,000 seats to 26,000 due to fire codes. When it opened in September 1980, it was clear just how loud it was inside, that night the domes famous nickname. The inflatable roof causes the sound produced to echo many times and it would also serve as the home for the mens basketball team, as a replacement for Manley Field House. Syracuse Universitys mens basketball per-game and single-season attendance numbers are annual contenders for the top rank in the nation, Lacrosse crowds are not as large, but the venue allows Syracuses lacrosse teams to play home games throughout the February–May regular season. The Dome has seen many of NCAA basketballs largest crowds, on February 1,2014, the attendance record for a NCAA mens basketball on-campus game was broken by a few hundred spectators in the Duke vs. Syracuse ACC matchup. Attendance was announced as 35,446, as Syracuse went on to win 91-89 and this win marked the 21st straight win of the season for the Orange, breaking a school record for the longest unbeaten streak to start a season. The previous attendance record was set February 23,2013, the game vs. long-standing Big East Conference rivals Georgetown Hoyas, as a member of the Big East. The Orange were defeated 57-46, ending the Oranges home win-streak at 38 games, prior to the Georgetown Hoyas attendance record, Syracuse University held the previous attendance record also. On February 27,2010, an attendance of 34,616 came to see the Orange beat the Villanova Wildcats 95-77. It was decided, to season ticket holders, that the court would stay in its usual location. However, the university did reconfigure the Dome to hold a new capacity of 35,446. On March 19,2007, a new NIT attendance record was set, at 26,752, Syracuse defeated the Utica Comets 2-1. The 1981 Big East Conference mens basketball tournament was held there, the Mens NCAA Basketball Tournament East Regional semi-finals & finals have been held at the Dome seven times

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Otto the Orange
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Otto the Orange is the mascot for the Syracuse Orange, the athletic teams of Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, USA. Otto is an orange, wearing a large blue hat. Otto can usually be seen at Syracuse sporting events in the Carrier Dome, the Syracuse mascot was originally a Native American character named The Saltine Warrior and Big Chief Bill Orange. The character was out of a hoax in which it was claimed that a 16th-century Onondogan Indian chief was unearthed while digging the foundation for the womens gymnasium in 1928. In the mid-1950s, the father of a Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity brother owned a cheerleading camp and he made a Saltine Warrior costume for his son to wear at SU football games. Thus began a nearly forty-year tradition of Lambda Chi brothers serving as SUs mascot, in 1990 however the University opened up the mascot traditions to the entire student body. In 1978, Native American students successfully petitioned the University to discontinue the Saltine Warrior, during the 1978 season, the University introduced a Roman gladiator dressed in orange armor, but the idea proved largely unpopular among fans, who regularly booed the mascot. It was concluded that the name Opie would lead to the rhyme with dopey. Later that fall, word got out that the cheerleaders were calling the latest mascot costume Otto, for 17 years the university did not settle on an official mascot until the chancellor appointed a group of students and faculty to create a mascot and logo. University administration considered introducing a new mascot, but the student body supported Otto and he was recognized as the official mascot of Syracuse University by 1995. In general, most of Otto’s social media activity happens through pictures, additionally, he frequently retweets or shares other University pages in order to promote sports games, events such as the career fair, and instilling pride in SU fans. Otto the Orange is also verified across all of his platforms, the first picture posted by Otto was added January 13,2014. The photo was a picture of a cupcake with a version of Otto sitting on top. The instagram page is updated with photos of Otto with fans, playing out in snow. Created in 2014, the account posts updates that promotes events going on around campus such as football and basketball games, Otto posts often celebrating holidays, adding pictures with fans, and shares other Syracuse University pages

Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New …

Crouse College, a Romanesque building completed in 1889, housed the first College of Fine Arts in the United States. It is now the home of the university's College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Setnor School of Music.